April 27, 2023
Wendi Strauch Mahoney on April 13, 2023 writes for UncoverDC on a “dramatic increase in Maternal and Infant Mortality Rates in South Carolina”
Wendi reports on “two new reports by the South Carolina Department of Health and Human Control (DHEC)”:
- 2023 Infant Mortality Report
- “dramatic increase” in deaths of mothers and infants”
- Black infants are “dying at a rate nearly 2.5 times that of White infants
- South Carolina Maternal Morbidity and Mortality Review Committee
- 3% increase in maternal deaths directly related to “pregnancy itself from the year before.”
- “Pregnancy-related mortality rate in South Carolina is higher than the national average, especially in non-Hispanic Black women.”
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